Keep up the pressure on lobbyists

Siim Kallas should not give in to lobbyists’ pressure and should not weaken his plans to introduce a register showing who is paying whom and for what (‘Kallas faces battle of will with lobbyists’, 21-27 June). Lobbyists will of course cry wolf whenever somebody tries to introduce any change in the current rules.I trust that most of them have nothing to hide, so why are they up in arms against the Kallas proposal? While Europe has not had, so far, any large-scale lobbying scandal, it is only a matter of time until it happens. And then the rules that will be introduced, in panic, under political pressure, and following stark press criticisms, will be much tougher and less well thought-through. Lobbyists should accept transparency standards in order to avoid a much riskier prospect, of tough rushed-through rules at a later stage.